Jim Watson (artist)
James Watson was a British comics artist most famous for his work on TV Century 21, and boys comics for DC Thomson and IPC as well as one series for 2000 AD.Career
Watson began working for advertising agencies in the 1950s and 1960s, and gradually built up his comics work.
He provided illustrations for the novelisation of the film Thunderbirds Are Go and later began working for TV Century 21 in particular on Zero X and Captain Scarlet.
He worked for various boys comics in particular war comics such as Battle and Commando, and contributed the story "Colony Earth" to 2000 AD which he also wrote.
When the British comics industry contracted in the late 1980s, Watson found fewer opportunities and began selling paintings.
